EDU 619 Children's and Adolescent Literature

This graduate level course is about children's and adolescent literature and how it can enrich, extend, and enliven the curriculum. It is designed to provide candidates with the knowledge, skills, and dispositions necessary for effectively integrating children’s and adolescents’ literature into their teaching. Course content provides a survey of literature for children and adolescents with an emphasis on reading, analyzing, and evaluating various literary genres and examining literary elements and values presented in classic and modern picture books, chapter books, and novels. Candidates will explore the positive correlation between children’s and adolescents’ literature and reading achievement and will learn how to apply their knowledge of literature to help young people grow in their social, emotional, cognitive, language, and reading abilities. The study of children’s and adolescents’ literature will consider factors that influence cultural patterns and values. Further, this course will consider issues, strategies, structures, and frameworks related to using literature in the classroom that encourage conversations, and build dialogue through reading aloud, independent reading, and literature circles. This course is delivered 100% online.

Credits

2

Prerequisite

Admission into the Master of Education (M.Ed.) in Curriculum and Instruction program.

Offered

summer